I’m running Home Assistant Operating System on a pi4. This morning there were a few updates including ESPHome (requiring my three Bluetooth proxies to be updated as well). Everything went well until the update for Home Assistant Operating System…
The update froze (seemed to freeze) as it often does, giving no feedback because, its rebooting, I surmise? This is “normal” except, this time, it never recovered. I slowly power cycled a dozen times and decided that this wasn’t going to recover on its own.
My next step was to move the pi4 across the office so I could hook-up a monitor and keyboard to it. Watching the monitor closely for signs of error, it booted up perfectly. I thought, YES!.. just a weird glitch, so I moved it back to its headless resting place and powered it up… Nothing!
I moved it back and gave it a monitor again and magic it boots first time. I’ve been running Home Assistant on this pi4 for about a year and a half, headless.
Hello, I seem to have a similar issue. Not sure what you mean by ‘headless’, but my HA is running also on Pi4, and I just upgraded to 14.1 HA OS, and now, HA won’t start. PI does start, though, and I can ssh into it, and I can run all commands like ha resolution blablabla, but no way I can start HA application.
I never investigated how HA is structured within HA OS, so I do not know where to look for.
OS Version: Home Assistant OS 14.1
Home Assistant Core: 2024.12.4
services-up: info: copying legacy longrun home-assistant (no readiness notification)
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
[13:18:09] INFO: Home Assistant Core finish process exit code 256
[13:18:09] INFO: Home Assistant Core finish process received signal 4
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: stopping
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: stopping
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: stopping
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: stopping
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully stopped
Ah, and I found a home-assistant.log.fault file, containing lots of:
Fatal Python error: Illegal instruction
Thread 0x0000007f929fee58 (most recent call first):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/logging/handlers.py", line 1523 in dequeue
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/logging/handlers.py", line 1574 in _monitor
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/threading.py", line 992 in run
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/threading.py", line 1041 in _bootstrap_inner
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/threading.py", line 1012 in _bootstrap
Current thread 0x0000007f92fbae58 (most recent call first):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yaml/constructor.py", line 49 in get_single_data
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yaml/__init__.py", line 81 in load
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/util/yaml/loader.py", line 228 in _parse_yaml
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/util/yaml/loader.py", line 201 in parse_yaml
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/util/yaml/loader.py", line 168 in load_yaml
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/util/yaml/loader.py", line 186 in load_yaml_dict
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/config.py", line 276 in load_yaml_config_file
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58 in run
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 92 in _worker
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/threading.py", line 992 in run
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/threading.py", line 1041 in _bootstrap_inner
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/threading.py", line 1012 in _bootstrap
Thread 0x0000007f9e81e020 (most recent call first):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/selectors.py", line 452 in select
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1989 in _run_once
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 679 in run_forever
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 708 in run_until_complete
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/runner.py", line 154 in run
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/__main__.py", line 213 in main
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/__main__.py", line 227 in <module>
File "<frozen runpy>", line 88 in _run_code
File "<frozen runpy>", line 198 in _run_module_as_main
Extension modules: _cffi_backend, ciso8601, yaml._yaml, propcache._helpers_c, ulid_transform._ulid_impl, multidict._multidict, yarl._quoting_c, markupsa
I forgot about this post and posted about it again, slap me.
I have no answer and no information except that Home Assistant will boot (for me) as long as I have a monitor and keyboard attached (hardwired) to my pi4 and it won’t start without it.
I can add that it started around 2024.11.x to 2024.12.1, not that, that helps any.
MrGrey.
Edit: Reflecting: (14.1) is 2024.11.1 so I’m changing heading to reflect that.
